{"id":3231,"date":"2026-09-12T02:01:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T09:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/insights\/?p=3231"},"modified":"2026-09-12T02:01:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T09:01:23","slug":"why-lists-help-ai-organize-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/insights\/why-lists-help-ai-organize-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Lists Help AI Organize Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-3231\" data-postid=\"3231\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-3231 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n                    <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_h74r108 tb_first tf_w\">\n                        <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col-full tb_vipd109 first\">\n                    <!-- Breadcrumbs module -->\n<div  class=\"module module-breadcrumbs tb_qrep193 \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n\t<nav role=\"navigation\" aria-label=\"Breadcrumbs\" class=\"tbp_breadcrumb_trail\"><ul class=\"tbp_trail_items\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/BreadcrumbList\"><meta name=\"numberOfItems\" content=\"1\" \/><meta name=\"itemListOrder\" content=\"Ascending\" \/><li itemprop=\"itemListElement\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ListItem\" class=\"tbp_trail_item tbp_trail_end\"><a itemprop=\"item\" href=\"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/insights\/\" rel=\"home\"><span itemprop=\"name\">Home<\/span><\/a><meta itemprop=\"position\" content=\"1\" \/><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div><!-- \/Breadcrumbs module -->\n<!-- module image -->\n<div  class=\"module module-image tb_om3m218 image-center rounded drop-shadow  tf_mw\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div class=\"image-wrap tf_rel tf_mw\">\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Why-Lists-Help-AI-Organize-Information.webp\" class=\"wp-post-image wp-image-3232\" title=\"Why Lists Help AI Organize Information\" alt=\"Why Lists Help AI Organize Information\" srcset=\"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Why-Lists-Help-AI-Organize-Information.webp 640w, https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Why-Lists-Help-AI-Organize-Information-300x169.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>    \n        <\/div>\n    <!-- \/image-wrap -->\n    \n        <\/div>\n<!-- \/module image --><!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_ciui9   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h2>Why Lists Help AI Organize Information<\/h2><p>If you are wondering whether lists on your website do anything for AI beyond making a page easier to skim, here is the direct answer. A list tells ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini three things at once: where one item ends and the next begins, that every item is the same kind of thing, and that the set is complete as written. Prose states none of that. It leaves the model to infer boundaries, categories, and scope from sentence structure, and inference is where descriptions of a business start to drift.<\/p><p>That is why lists help. Not because AI rewards bullet points, and not because a list makes your writing look organized. A list is organization made explicit. It hands the model a set of pieces already separated and already labeled as belonging together, which is exactly the work the model would otherwise have to do on its own.<\/p><p>The catch is that a list only helps when it is a real list. Most business websites are full of lists that look organized and state almost nothing, and those lists organize AI&#8217;s understanding just as efficiently, in the wrong direction.<\/p><h2>What a List Says That a Sentence Cannot<\/h2><p>Consider the same information written two ways. First, a sentence on a services page: &#8220;We handle bookkeeping, payroll, and quarterly tax filings, along with year end planning and support for restaurants across Arizona.&#8221; Now the same content as a list:<\/p><ul><li>Bookkeeping<\/li><li>Payroll<\/li><li>Quarterly tax filings<\/li><li>Year end tax planning<\/li><\/ul><p>Followed by one sentence: &#8220;We provide these services to restaurants across Arizona.&#8221;<\/p><p>A human reads both versions the same way. A model does not. In the sentence, the boundaries between items are commas, and commas do a dozen different jobs in English. Is &#8220;year end planning and support&#8221; one service or two? Does &#8220;for restaurants&#8221; apply to the whole list or only the last item? <a href=\"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/insights\/why-ai-takes-your-words-literally\/\">AI takes your words literally<\/a>, and a literal reading of that sentence has several defensible interpretations. The model picks one silently.<\/p><p>The list removes the choice. Each line is one item. Each item is the same type of thing, because that is what a list asserts by its shape. And the sentence underneath applies to all of them, because it sits outside the list instead of dangling off the end of it. This is the principle behind <a href=\"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/insights\/ambiguous-sentences-create-ambiguous-ai-answers\/\">Ambiguous Sentences Create Ambiguous AI Answers<\/a>: every place your writing forces a model to guess is a place the guess can go wrong. Lists remove a specific class of guesses.<\/p><h2>Why This Fits How AI Stores Information<\/h2><p>Lists land cleanly because they match the shape of what AI is trying to build. <a href=\"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/insights\/why-ai-thinks-in-entities\/\">AI thinks in entities<\/a>, meaning it organizes what it learns into distinct things and the relationships between them. Your business is an entity. Each of your services can be one too, a point covered in <a href=\"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/insights\/services-can-become-entities\/\">Services Can Become Entities<\/a>. A list of services is, structurally, a set of entities attached to a parent. The format and the storage model line up.<\/p><p>There is a second reason, and it has to do with how AI systems read pages in practice. They rarely process a page top to bottom. They break it into sections and retrieve those sections independently, which is part of why <a href=\"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/insights\/ai-crawling-is-not-the-same-thing-as-ai-understanding\/\">crawling a page is not the same as understanding it<\/a>. A list is a natural unit, with a beginning, an end, and usually a heading that says what it contains, so it survives being pulled out of context. Citation studies over the past year have repeatedly found list based content quoted in AI answers far more often than the same information written as paragraphs, and this is the mechanism behind that pattern. Extraction favors content that already has edges.<\/p><p>This makes lists a close cousin of headings. As I explained in <a href=\"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/insights\/how-headlines-influence-ai-interpretation\/\">How Headlines Influence AI Interpretation<\/a>, a heading is read as a label for everything beneath it. A list works the same way at a finer grain. The heading labels the block. The list items label the pieces inside it.<\/p><h2>The Lists That Organize the Wrong Thing<\/h2><p>Here is where most business websites lose the benefit. A list is a strong signal, and a strong signal pointed in the wrong direction is worse than a weak one. Four patterns account for most of the damage.<\/p><p><strong>The decorative list.<\/strong> Core Values. Quality. Integrity. Service. Excellence. This is the most common list on business websites, and it states nothing a model can attach to your business specifically, because every competitor has the same list. It is also, structurally, a list of your defining attributes, sitting on your most important pages. You have used the most explicit format available to tell AI that your distinguishing features are the same as everyone else&#8217;s. It is a specific case of the problem in <a href=\"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/insights\/why-ai-can-misread-marketing-language\/\">Why AI Can Misread Marketing Language<\/a>.<\/p><p><strong>The mixed list.<\/strong> A list that asserts its items are the same kind of thing had better contain the same kind of thing. Many do not. One bulleted block will hold two services, a location, a credential, a guarantee, and a slogan. To a human, it is a summary. To a model, it is a claim that &#8220;Licensed and Insured&#8221; and &#8220;Commercial Roofing&#8221; and &#8220;Serving the East Valley&#8221; are siblings in one category. The model has to decide what that category is, and whatever it decides, some of your facts get filed under the wrong heading. This is one route to <a href=\"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/insights\/why-ai-may-recognize-your-business-but-misunderstand-its-specialty\/\">AI recognizing your business but misunderstanding its specialty<\/a>, and a common source of the pattern in <a href=\"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/insights\/how-ai-can-combine-accurate-facts-into-an-inaccurate-conclusion\/\">How AI Can Combine Accurate Facts Into an Inaccurate Conclusion<\/a>. Every item was true. The grouping was not.<\/p><p><strong>The list without a subject.<\/strong> Lists inherit their meaning from whatever introduces them. A block of items under a generic heading, or under no heading at all, is a set of well separated pieces with no statement of what they are pieces of. The model will supply a category, and as covered in <a href=\"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/insights\/what-missing-information-can-reveal-about-ais-understanding-of-a-business\/\">What Missing Information Can Reveal About AI&#8217;s Understanding of a Business<\/a>, the category it supplies is the industry default rather than yours.<\/p><p><strong>The list of names without definitions.<\/strong> A list can separate your services perfectly and explain none of them. &#8220;Fractional CFO Services&#8221; as a bare bullet tells a model you offer something by that name. It does not say what the service includes, who it is for, or how it differs from the bookkeeping two lines above. Lists are excellent at boundaries and poor at meaning, which is the distinction at the center of <a href=\"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/insights\/why-definitions-matter\/\">Why Definitions Matter<\/a>. A list of labels is a table of contents for content you have not written yet.<\/p><p>Underneath all four sits compression. A bullet that reads &#8220;Roofing&#8221; instead of &#8220;Flat commercial roof replacement&#8221; has dropped three qualifiers to fit the format, and the argument in <a href=\"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/insights\/why-shorter-is-not-always-better\/\">Why Shorter Is Not Always Better<\/a> applies with extra force here, because the list format makes the compressed version look complete.<\/p><h2>The Claims a List Makes Without Writing Them Down<\/h2><p>Two things a list implies are easy to forget because they never appear on the page.<\/p><p>The first is equal weight. Items in a list read as peers. If your core service and a minor add on sit in the same bulleted block, you have told the model they are equally central, and that flattening becomes evidence when the model decides <a href=\"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/insights\/how-ai-decides-what-your-business-is-known-for\/\">what your business is known for<\/a>. Prose lets you say &#8220;primarily&#8221; and &#8220;occasionally.&#8221; A list says everything is the same size.<\/p><p>The second is completeness. A list reads as the full set. If your services page lists six offerings and the seventh lives only in a paragraph elsewhere, the list is the version that gets filed and the seventh sits outside it. A homepage list that disagrees with the services page list is not two views of one business. It is two competing sets, and <a href=\"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/insights\/why-consistent-terminology-matters\/\">consistent terminology<\/a> between them is what lets the model recognize they describe the same thing.<\/p><h2>What This Costs<\/h2><p>The consequence of a bad list is rarely a false statement. It is a confident answer that is organized wrong. A prospect asks an AI system what your company does and gets your values list back as a description, or your side services presented as equals to your main work, or a tidy set of service names with no explanation of what any of them involve. Nothing in that answer is invented. It was assembled from pieces you supplied in the clearest format you had, and it arrives sounding settled, because <a href=\"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/insights\/why-ai-sometimes-sounds-certain-when-its-understanding-is-incomplete\/\">AI sounds certain even when its understanding is incomplete<\/a>.<\/p><p>That exchange happens where you cannot see it. <a href=\"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/insights\/your-prospect-may-ask-ai-about-you-before-contacting-you\/\">Your prospect may ask AI about you before contacting you<\/a>, form an opinion from a well organized description of the wrong business, and never arrive. Nothing in your analytics changes.<\/p><h2>Reading Your Own Lists<\/h2><p>The check is simple to run. Pull every list from your most important pages and ask three questions of each. What is this a list of, and does the page say so? Is every item the same kind of thing? Would a stranger learn anything about your business from the items alone? A list that passes all three is working for you. A list that fails any of them is working against you, in a format the model trusts.<\/p><p>What that check cannot show is what your lists have already produced. You read your own site knowing what each bullet means and what it belongs to, so the ambiguity is invisible from your side. The only evidence is the output, and the output lives in three systems that <a href=\"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/insights\/all-ai-models-know-the-same-things-they-dont\/\">do not all know the same things<\/a>.<\/p><p>That is what the <a href=\"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/how-it-works.html\">AI Business Understanding Report<\/a> documents. I question ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini about your business from multiple angles, read every answer, and trace the shapeless or misfiled ones back toward their likely causes. A values list standing in for a description, a mixed list that put a credential next to a service, a services list that flattened your specialty into one item among six: these show up in the answers before they show up anywhere else, which is why the analysis starts with the answers instead of the markup.<\/p><p>Lists are the closest thing to a filing system that plain writing has. AI uses them that way whether you meant it or not. 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A list tells ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini three things at once: where one item ends and the next begins, that every item is the same kind of thing, and that the set is complete as written. Prose states none of that. It leaves the model to infer boundaries, categories, and scope from sentence structure, and inference is where descriptions of a business start to drift.<\/p><p>That is why lists help. Not because AI rewards bullet points, and not because a list makes your writing look organized. A list is organization made explicit. It hands the model a set of pieces already separated and already labeled as belonging together, which is exactly the work the model would otherwise have to do on its own.<\/p><p>The catch is that a list only helps when it is a real list. Most business websites are full of lists that look organized and state almost nothing, and those lists organize AI's understanding just as efficiently, in the wrong direction.<\/p><h2>What a List Says That a Sentence Cannot<\/h2><p>Consider the same information written two ways. First, a sentence on a services page: \"We handle bookkeeping, payroll, and quarterly tax filings, along with year end planning and support for restaurants across Arizona.\" Now the same content as a list:<\/p><ul><li>Bookkeeping<\/li><li>Payroll<\/li><li>Quarterly tax filings<\/li><li>Year end tax planning<\/li><\/ul><p>Followed by one sentence: \"We provide these services to restaurants across Arizona.\"<\/p><p>A human reads both versions the same way. A model does not. In the sentence, the boundaries between items are commas, and commas do a dozen different jobs in English. Is \"year end planning and support\" one service or two? Does \"for restaurants\" apply to the whole list or only the last item? <a href=\"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/insights\/why-ai-takes-your-words-literally\/\">AI takes your words literally<\/a>, and a literal reading of that sentence has several defensible interpretations. The model picks one silently.<\/p><p>The list removes the choice. Each line is one item. Each item is the same type of thing, because that is what a list asserts by its shape. And the sentence underneath applies to all of them, because it sits outside the list instead of dangling off the end of it. This is the principle behind <a href=\"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/insights\/ambiguous-sentences-create-ambiguous-ai-answers\/\">Ambiguous Sentences Create Ambiguous AI Answers<\/a>: every place your writing forces a model to guess is a place the guess can go wrong. Lists remove a specific class of guesses.<\/p><h2>Why This Fits How AI Stores Information<\/h2><p>Lists land cleanly because they match the shape of what AI is trying to build. <a href=\"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/insights\/why-ai-thinks-in-entities\/\">AI thinks in entities<\/a>, meaning it organizes what it learns into distinct things and the relationships between them. Your business is an entity. Each of your services can be one too, a point covered in <a href=\"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/insights\/services-can-become-entities\/\">Services Can Become Entities<\/a>. A list of services is, structurally, a set of entities attached to a parent. The format and the storage model line up.<\/p><p>There is a second reason, and it has to do with how AI systems read pages in practice. They rarely process a page top to bottom. They break it into sections and retrieve those sections independently, which is part of why <a href=\"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/insights\/ai-crawling-is-not-the-same-thing-as-ai-understanding\/\">crawling a page is not the same as understanding it<\/a>. A list is a natural unit, with a beginning, an end, and usually a heading that says what it contains, so it survives being pulled out of context. Citation studies over the past year have repeatedly found list based content quoted in AI answers far more often than the same information written as paragraphs, and this is the mechanism behind that pattern. Extraction favors content that already has edges.<\/p><p>This makes lists a close cousin of headings. As I explained in <a href=\"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/insights\/how-headlines-influence-ai-interpretation\/\">How Headlines Influence AI Interpretation<\/a>, a heading is read as a label for everything beneath it. A list works the same way at a finer grain. The heading labels the block. The list items label the pieces inside it.<\/p><h2>The Lists That Organize the Wrong Thing<\/h2><p>Here is where most business websites lose the benefit. A list is a strong signal, and a strong signal pointed in the wrong direction is worse than a weak one. Four patterns account for most of the damage.<\/p><p><strong>The decorative list.<\/strong> Core Values. Quality. Integrity. Service. Excellence. This is the most common list on business websites, and it states nothing a model can attach to your business specifically, because every competitor has the same list. It is also, structurally, a list of your defining attributes, sitting on your most important pages. You have used the most explicit format available to tell AI that your distinguishing features are the same as everyone else's. It is a specific case of the problem in <a href=\"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/insights\/why-ai-can-misread-marketing-language\/\">Why AI Can Misread Marketing Language<\/a>.<\/p><p><strong>The mixed list.<\/strong> A list that asserts its items are the same kind of thing had better contain the same kind of thing. Many do not. One bulleted block will hold two services, a location, a credential, a guarantee, and a slogan. To a human, it is a summary. To a model, it is a claim that \"Licensed and Insured\" and \"Commercial Roofing\" and \"Serving the East Valley\" are siblings in one category. The model has to decide what that category is, and whatever it decides, some of your facts get filed under the wrong heading. This is one route to <a href=\"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/insights\/why-ai-may-recognize-your-business-but-misunderstand-its-specialty\/\">AI recognizing your business but misunderstanding its specialty<\/a>, and a common source of the pattern in <a href=\"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/insights\/how-ai-can-combine-accurate-facts-into-an-inaccurate-conclusion\/\">How AI Can Combine Accurate Facts Into an Inaccurate Conclusion<\/a>. Every item was true. The grouping was not.<\/p><p><strong>The list without a subject.<\/strong> Lists inherit their meaning from whatever introduces them. A block of items under a generic heading, or under no heading at all, is a set of well separated pieces with no statement of what they are pieces of. The model will supply a category, and as covered in <a href=\"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/insights\/what-missing-information-can-reveal-about-ais-understanding-of-a-business\/\">What Missing Information Can Reveal About AI's Understanding of a Business<\/a>, the category it supplies is the industry default rather than yours.<\/p><p><strong>The list of names without definitions.<\/strong> A list can separate your services perfectly and explain none of them. \"Fractional CFO Services\" as a bare bullet tells a model you offer something by that name. It does not say what the service includes, who it is for, or how it differs from the bookkeeping two lines above. Lists are excellent at boundaries and poor at meaning, which is the distinction at the center of <a href=\"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/insights\/why-definitions-matter\/\">Why Definitions Matter<\/a>. A list of labels is a table of contents for content you have not written yet.<\/p><p>Underneath all four sits compression. A bullet that reads \"Roofing\" instead of \"Flat commercial roof replacement\" has dropped three qualifiers to fit the format, and the argument in <a href=\"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/insights\/why-shorter-is-not-always-better\/\">Why Shorter Is Not Always Better<\/a> applies with extra force here, because the list format makes the compressed version look complete.<\/p><h2>The Claims a List Makes Without Writing Them Down<\/h2><p>Two things a list implies are easy to forget because they never appear on the page.<\/p><p>The first is equal weight. Items in a list read as peers. If your core service and a minor add on sit in the same bulleted block, you have told the model they are equally central, and that flattening becomes evidence when the model decides <a href=\"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/insights\/how-ai-decides-what-your-business-is-known-for\/\">what your business is known for<\/a>. Prose lets you say \"primarily\" and \"occasionally.\" A list says everything is the same size.<\/p><p>The second is completeness. A list reads as the full set. If your services page lists six offerings and the seventh lives only in a paragraph elsewhere, the list is the version that gets filed and the seventh sits outside it. A homepage list that disagrees with the services page list is not two views of one business. It is two competing sets, and <a href=\"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/insights\/why-consistent-terminology-matters\/\">consistent terminology<\/a> between them is what lets the model recognize they describe the same thing.<\/p><h2>What This Costs<\/h2><p>The consequence of a bad list is rarely a false statement. It is a confident answer that is organized wrong. A prospect asks an AI system what your company does and gets your values list back as a description, or your side services presented as equals to your main work, or a tidy set of service names with no explanation of what any of them involve. Nothing in that answer is invented. It was assembled from pieces you supplied in the clearest format you had, and it arrives sounding settled, because <a href=\"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/insights\/why-ai-sometimes-sounds-certain-when-its-understanding-is-incomplete\/\">AI sounds certain even when its understanding is incomplete<\/a>.<\/p><p>That exchange happens where you cannot see it. <a href=\"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/insights\/your-prospect-may-ask-ai-about-you-before-contacting-you\/\">Your prospect may ask AI about you before contacting you<\/a>, form an opinion from a well organized description of the wrong business, and never arrive. Nothing in your analytics changes.<\/p><h2>Reading Your Own Lists<\/h2><p>The check is simple to run. Pull every list from your most important pages and ask three questions of each. What is this a list of, and does the page say so? Is every item the same kind of thing? Would a stranger learn anything about your business from the items alone? A list that passes all three is working for you. A list that fails any of them is working against you, in a format the model trusts.<\/p><p>What that check cannot show is what your lists have already produced. You read your own site knowing what each bullet means and what it belongs to, so the ambiguity is invisible from your side. The only evidence is the output, and the output lives in three systems that <a href=\"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/insights\/all-ai-models-know-the-same-things-they-dont\/\">do not all know the same things<\/a>.<\/p><p>That is what the <a href=\"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/how-it-works.html\">AI Business Understanding Report<\/a> documents. I question ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini about your business from multiple angles, read every answer, and trace the shapeless or misfiled ones back toward their likely causes. A values list standing in for a description, a mixed list that put a credential next to a service, a services list that flattened your specialty into one item among six: these show up in the answers before they show up anywhere else, which is why the analysis starts with the answers instead of the markup.<\/p><p>Lists are the closest thing to a filing system that plain writing has. AI uses them that way whether you meant it or not. If you want to know what three AI systems have filed from yours, <a href=\"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/order-now.html\">ordering a report<\/a> is how you find out.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3231"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3235,"href":"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231\/revisions\/3235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frankmasotti.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}